Month: March 2020

Barcelona closes out 2019 with 5,684 .barcelona domains

Posted on by Comunicació

Barcelona is the first city in the Spanish state to have its own domain since 2016.

Barcelona joined the cities with their own domains when it launched .barcelona in March 2016, becoming the first city in the Spanish state to have its own.

The .barcelona domain has grown over the last four years, with 5,684 registered as of the end of 2019, reflecting a trend of consolidation with numbers practically  the same as the previous year. Of these, 1,071 are new domains and 4,504 renewals. This means the renewal rate is 83.15%, in line with other leading city domains such as .nyc, .london and .berlin.

This high rate of renewals confirms that users value being identified with Barcelona, whether through the geolocalisation of their activity or through identification with the city’s attributes.

The .barcelona domain is open to everyone. All organisations, businesses, individuals and administrations with some sort of link or activity within Barcelona’s area of influence can register .barcelona domains. The money made through the sale of .barcelona domains is also reinvested in projects with a social impact, such as the .barcelona training programme in the neighbourhoods to reduce the digital divide.

.stockholm, a domain to explain the reality of the city on the internet

Posted on by Ana Tapia

How to transfer over 3,000 website pages to a city domain.

Stockholm City Council has been working to revamp the stockholm.se website, with over 3,000 pages and thousands of documents and links, and transform it into start.stockholm.

The ICANN approved the .stockholm domain in 2015. In contrast to other city domains such as .barcelona, .berlin and .london, Stockholm opted from the outset to make the .stockholm domain exclusive for its City Council’s digital resources and for some cases of interest, such as important events in Stockholm.

When it came to designing their new website, they took user experience and common browsing patterns into account.  The same space allows citizens to access different services in the city. If somebody wants to apply to enrol their child at a nursery, they can also access the healthcare service for the care of a family member. Once the sections were chosen, they created their own .stockholm domains, all accessible from start.stockholm.

The first two sections, or websites, to be up and running were the nursery section (forskola.stockholm) and the care of the elderly section (aldreomsorg.stockholm) at the end of December 2018.

The migration of all the information to the .stockholm domains concluded on 29 January with the publication of the website start.stockholm. In under a month this has become the top result when anybody searches for Stockholm.